The Pirate Monk and Robin Hood
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- While there is disagreement over whether the character of Robin Hood is based on a real person, it is clear that the legend was inspired by literary works that predate the Robin Hood legend, some based on real people. One of those was a thirteenth century romance written in verse about a surprisingly Robin Hoodish French nobleman who for a time led a merry band of thieves in the forest engaging in very Robin Hoodish antics. But this particular rogue then realized something that Robin Hood did not- that all good stories involve pirates.
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Pirates and Robin Hood!!!! In one story - wow. This is awesome, thank you for this.
If pirates are involved The History Guy's on top of that tale for sure, surprised he hasn't done a story on my birth city Pittsburgh, Pa, we have pirates running all over the place!!!🙏👍👻❣️
I remember reading Ivanhoe while laid up in my college days. To me the Canterbury Tales was the MCU of it's era, and viewed through such a lense is raw entertainment.
Fascinating life and historical impact indeed. Apart from his cruelty, lies and vascilating loyalties, he lived as intrifuing a life as one could aspire to. Eustis coukd defintely the hold interest of a Netflix audience
This is the guy that all the rogues and bards in DnD want to be like. Guy even multi classed into monk for a bit because he felt like it.
He would have made a fine Dread Pirate Roberts.
Lol....do people even still play DnD? Geez...
@@guytansbariva2295 Yeah but I ain't one of them. Not played in a long time. Still watch others play it though. Critical Roll is pretty good to watch.
Bards don’t curse & fart on the job.
@@anti-Russia-sigma You missed his joke. It's about a game
This feels like it's straight out of a fantasy RPG and we're not mad about it.
I'm so sorry that I forgot about your channel! Legit, you're one of the best creators on TH-cam! So happy I came across your videos again!
The Gregorian monks follow-up album, 'Farting in the Cloister', never achieved the popularity of the earlier effort.
🤣😂😅
I would like to hear that 🤓
"Farting In The Cloister" would be an excellent name for a progressive rock band.
Unbelievable: I'm reading The Plantagenets by Dan Jones and just got to the part about Eustache the Monk as he names him, and the start of the Robin Hood myth. Awesome video, great stuff!
And that’s a great book ! Amazing that you’re reading it, I was downhearted thinking that people didn’t read anymore lol. Especially books such as that one ! You have restored my faith in humanity !
Eustis the monk was a straight gangster!! This guy needs his own series!
Or at least a movie franchise!
A paedophile priest was trying to kill my father; he was bleeding out when I called to check on him, on the other side of the country. The damn priest was there and would not even help him get medical attention. He obviously poisoned him with cyanide, a favorite by CIA. Depravity is rewarded in this country! I called the police and said that priest was obviously trying to kill my father, to please check on him and get him an ambulance. And they did get him to the hospital but the damn priest got away with attempted murder, and my father was later murdered by my brother, 4 weeks later. Resenting I left my job and went down to New Mexico to help my abandoned father who did anything he could for his family, who were the center of his life. My brother bragged that it was a religious experience and he really came down to kill him. But did anyone care about his deceitful tricks to kill his own father? Of course not! These medical people did not want to be sued. And a certain doctor obviously kills people on a regular basis. David Bentley from Albany, NY was the scumbag priest. The Catholic Church transferred him to NM to cover up his crimes. There was a class action lawsuit including 26 victims at that point. Probably more added on - he had been molesting children for 19 years there! My father was a devoted Deacon in the Catholic Church - against PAEDOPHILIA, dishonesty, and more! How dare him!
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thanx Lance for a wonderful pirate story...again.
Love the intros , and I’m always entertained and enlightened. Thank You for making this wonderful episode today
"Well-timed Flatulence" is indeed a talent!
No. Robin Hood was based on an Englishman, Fulk FitzWarin. Fulk's father died, and Fulk was to inherit a vast estate in land, subject to paying a nominal fee to King John. The king refused to accept that fee and instead assigned the land to someone else for an even smaller fee. Maid Marian was based on my ancestor, Maud le Vavasour, who was the daughter of a sheriff and wife of Baron Theobald le Boteler. King John sent that nobleman off to Ireland where he was killed, leaving Maud with children and no means of supporting them. He would not permit her to marry again until her dowery was repaid to the sheriff. Muad and Fulk joined forces to acquire the needed money and to cause havoc throughout the land.
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Ummm cuz I am literally choosing between food or rent. Probably gonna go with rent.... need to stay warm in these -20°c days.
Thank you, sir -- as well for your earnest reminder that reading can itself be great fun.
Wow. This channel is the first one where the commercial is properly embedded and the narration suites the audience, where I don't feel the urge to skip the s..t after 5 seconds.
My kids (teenagers) listened in on this one, gradually getting hooked. "What the heck are you listening to Dad?" Lol. Thanks again for the entertaining history lessons.
You should do one on King Arthur and the knights of the round table
That was just something that needed to be known. Thanks for another great episode.
"As through this world I've wandered, I've seen lots of funny men/ some rob you with a 6 gun and some rob you with a fountain pen...." Woody Guthrie
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When i was a kid i used to think that those places mentioned in the bible espcially egypt and isreal were located in heaven
No silly, hyperspace!
I think I did too now that you mention it.. I have a vague little kid memory of also thinking that.
That would have been your imagination. How cute..
Very nicely done. However, I have to question of the odd choice of the manuscript page displayed at 5:09, which clearly shows the Nordic god Odin along with his two companion ravens Huginn and Muninn, all clearly labeled. This is from a 17th century Icelandic manuscript, which clearly postdates the origins of the Robin Hood tales by about half a millenium.
But your presentation is terrifically good. Thanks, History Guy!
Extraordinary!
I appreciate you, thank you for making content.
The story of Eustice the Monk reminds me of the lyrics of Karl Orff's "Carmina Burana." These were referred to as the"Canticles Profanes of the Benedictine Monks;" which celebrates their love of gambling, chasing whores, banquets and drinking.
The Democrats of the day...LOL
@@QuantumRift Right on, my brother! Right on!
Great music also.. I visited his grave at Andechs monastery south of Munich in 1994...
Thank you for your work!
It shouldn't be surprising if large swathes of the traditional adventures of Robin Hood come from France. After all, Maid Marian appears to have come from originally unrelated French stories and was added to the Robin Hood stories in a period when tales of this sort required a love interest for the hero. This is very similar to how Robin Hood was reworked into the dispossessed Earl of Huntington in another era where the formula of these kinds of adventure stories called for a hero who was a noble of some sort.
Awesome presentation.
One thing, History Guy - you rock the bow tie because you are constantly leaning over desks, examining historical documents in great detail and don’t want to fuss with a dangling necktie. Is that it? …..Just Wondering, somewhere USA.
You need to do a video on why current public perception of Robin Hood is wrong. He didn't steal from the rich and give to the poor, he "stole" from the tax collector and gave people their own own money back!
Sounds like Trump
Just an observation
He probably robbed from everyone and kept it for himself
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I don’t think Friar Tuck would put up with that!
The nice thing about unverifiable stories from a fuzzy past is they can be adapted to any purpose. Religions abound from them.
@@robertdragoff6909 sounds like Ronald Reagan and everyone else that's declared the IRS as a unconstitutional bloated bureaucracy.
I remember my family going to the Warwick Drive in to see "Robin and the Seven Hoods", starring Frank Sinatra and the rest of his "Rat Pack" (Bing Crosby Sammie Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Falk and Edward G. Robinson).
Great presentations.
No farting in the cloister: the eleventh commandment.
This seems reasonable for the times. The robin hood we all knew from our childhood was probably a sanitized version of the legends from the victorian age published for general consumption of that time. Outlaws, bandits and pirates in the middle ages would cut your throat as soon as look at you, and I seriously doubt that they were very merry most of the time.
Thank you for the lesson.
I saw you on the history channel. Great segment lecture. Did you get to meet Shatner? Your appearance was the highlight of the episode!
Farts and bandits and pirates, oh my.
I read of Eustis the Monk in Jaques Mordal's "25 Centuries of Sea Warfare". The book had him being captured at sea by the English and being given a choice about where to place his neck on the ship for beheading
If I were a director of films, I would make a Robin Hood movie where he's more of a ne'er-do-well... ugly,, a bit slovenly. I like that painting at 3:03. He's older, a bit haphazardly outfitted... not "dashing." Thieves are thieves after all.
You could show him farting across France, being a brigand... but occasionally helping the poor in isolated instances, being generous despite himself (because underneath it all, he does have a good heart....) and somehow the legend is blown out of proportion. At some point he is caught doing something horrible by the country folk who consider him a hero, and they are faced with the dichotomy between the man they thought they knew, and the scoundrel in their midst!
thanks
Language, religion, culture, pets, wealth, and pirates! History is great!
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I guess the name "Robin Hood" just had a better ring to it than "Eustace the Monk" but I am not a literary agent.
Or Eustace the sorcerer.
I love your shows
I read Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" (1883) aloud to my children when they were young. That was fun with all its faux olden English speech. 🙂
Another great episode!
Speaking of pirates, have you devoted a vid to the Irish pirate-sea queen, Granuaille O'Maile?
I always thought the origin of the name went something like this … "I was robbed by a guy in a hood" >> "I was robbed by a hoodlum" >> "it was a robbing hooded highwayman" >> "it was that robbin' hoodlum" >> "it was Robbin Hood!"
''Following hound, Stable stand. Back beround, Scarlet hand'' Prince John's law forbidding deer hunting
THIS WAS FUN!
The flatulence thing was really big in the medieval period. I guess fart jokes have always been funny! I love that story! Thanks!
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Well timed Flatulence was the name of my band in high school.
"Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood with his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago with his friend, a jealous monk.
Now he looked so immaculately frightful as he bummed a cigarette
And he when off sniffing drainpipes and reciting the alphabet
You would not think to look at him, but he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin on Desolation Row."
Bob Dylan "Desolation Row" 1965
( harmonica: wha WHAAAAAHHH!)
A fine afternoon tale
1) looks like Friar Tuck met an ancestor of Monty Python 2) If the monk was as described, he should have been appointed Pope, since he had the necessary CV. 3) The stories changed as time passed, looks like Hollywood reruns and remakes
Quite remarkable! Doing a talk on the legend of Robin Hood without once mentioning Walter Scott and Ivanhoe: Quite an achievement.
hmmm ...could it be ... one has nada to do with the other
The first mention of Robin Hood was noted, as Robin Hode, in 1305 as recorded in the London Archives as a repeat outlaw and a fugitive.
The world’s first career criminal….
America has its own "Robin Hood", Jesse James." In the area around Kansas City, there are a lot of Jesse James stories and memorabilia. You can visit the first bank that he robbed.
Thank you.
SUCH A SPICY STORY😂🎉🎉🎉
The early ballads, Robin Hood had a much different character, one who was easily angered and took revenge for the merest slight such as beating up Little John for beating him in an archery contest. Not the polished person we have come to know.
Ahh! I'm going to attribute this to the origins of "Friar Tuck."
It's good to know fart jokes are timeless.
I heard a line within this cast
Meaning what, I'm trying to sense
Please tell us sir, when's most opportune
For "well timed flatulence"
Pirates, monk boots, and farting.
I didn't know they had Mexican food so early.
📣Back in the Saddle Again Naturally!
Fulk Fitzwarin is the man we would most associate with the legends these days. Worth looking into his story. He drop-kicked Prince John.
I'd not heard or read about Eustace. I like how he dealt with liars.
There's a good two-season German historical series called Thieves of the Woods, on Netflix or Prime, I forget which...
You should talk to Dr. Charles Kos. He’s a TH-camr who has a PhD in Robinhood and some very interesting things to say about him.
My fav is "Robin Hood: Men in Tights". Classic.
How about the TV show “when things were rotten”?
@@robertdragoff6909 SCREAM !!!! omg. You accessed a deep, forgotten part of my psyche. I completley forgot about Rocket Robin Hood. WOW. There's no point in describing the show. You have to see it to believe it. It's on the same level as the Spiderman cartoon from the 1960s. wow, just wow. Now I have to go watch it again. It will hurt my brain. But oh well, can't watch the news anymore. Go history.
Well, When things were rotten was a Mel Brooks tv show on the legend of Robin and his merry men….
Rocket Robin Hood was another take on the legend but with a futuristic twist and was probably made by the same company that made the Spider-Man series….
In fact, there was a Spider Man episode that copied a Rocket Robin Hood story…. When Parker flies off to space he takes off in what looks like a space ship that looks like the one used in Rocket Robin Hood….
This guy is badass
Thank you Youngling 😊
Good morning 🌅
One of the greats. Cleatly THG was enjoying it too.
first time for me commenting i wanted to say im a big fan of what's interesting and real, especially pirates. here in pickens s.c we have a few pirates around. the only intel i have is where they eat.... AAAARRRRBBBYS!!!! i know this comment doesn't pertain to this snipit i was wondering if you've heard that joke? it only took my family 5 years to grow tired of it. theres a bit of history here in pickens sc. perhaps you could look into it sometime. keep up the good work.
I saw the word pirate, so I had to click on!😁👍
ah, yes! as expected, it involved pirates, and was therefore excellent!
Eustis and his Merry Monks just doesn't have the same ring to it!
I am glad Eustace the Pirate didn't sell corn. Priced @ a buccaneer.
Is that the original corny joke?
@@rjmun580 A-w-w- SHUCKS
Looks like we’re getting an earful!
@@robertdragoff6909 OW!!
Careful! More puns like that and you might get creamed!
I live in Eustis, FL. But my town isn't named after this character!😆
Sounds like Eustis was a real gasbag.
Interesting stuff - but clearly Robin Hood’s and Eustace’s stories were based on the life of Errol Flynn.
I know the timelines don’t seem to add up, but that is something for historians to unravel.
Sir Guy of Gisburn was the sheriff of Nottingham right hand man.
If there is a pirate, there has to be a cat. Because all good stories involve a pirate, a cat or a pirate cat
Look at Minamtoto Yoshitsine and Benkei. You’re pretty much getting the same picture. A man of the waves is nothing to be trifled with..
If this guy was in London, he'd be known as "a proper geezer ".
“What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.”
Eustis became one of the 3 Musketeers, well, at least his story had to have been considered.
Now that's a book I'd love to read!
It's nice to relax and learn some solid, interesting history, whilst all around us, our species tragically repeats it.
"History is stupid. Oh, unrelated question: why is this stupid war happening?"
What's going on at 6:52? It's almost like someone AI'd themselves into the painting...
The Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 would make an awesome video
It’s the only successful coup in US history
"The August 1217 Battle Of Sandwich" ... There could be a full Pixar / Dreamworks movie about the Battle Of Sandwich(es)
I'm sorry did I hear pirate!!!??
So it's thought that the name "Robin Hood" was used by highwaymen the way "Dread Pirate Roberts" was used by pirates? A universally known and feared name adopted by multiple?
Ya Harrrr!!!
I’m surprised nobody has noticed that…Robin Hood is clearly a pun on Robing Hoodlum.